We start our study of Edgar Allan Poe this week, and along with the master of terror and the father of the detective story comes some new vocabulary words. They’re listed below and separated by class.
Periods 1, 2, 4, and 5
Note: look up words 6 – 10 in the literature textbook glossary
- Vulnerable
- Vacillate
- Stipend
- Scale
- Retort
- Foreshadowing
- Diction
- Detail
- Imagery
- Figurative language
Period 3
- Cenotaph
- Unctuous
- Vicissitude
- Titillate
- Moribund
- Badinage
- Sesquipedalian
- Extirpate
- Apotheosis
- Swastika